Sonia Massai

Professore ordinario


email: sonia.massai@uniroma1.it

edificio: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Piazzale Aldo Moro
stanza: 15

Gli interessi di ricerca di Sonia Massai si concentrano su: Shakespeare e early modern drama; editing e storia del libro (con particolare attenzione alla trasmissione di Shakespeare e di altri drammaturghi dal manoscritto alla stampa, attraverso la quale Shakespeare e i suoi contemporanei sono stati rappresentati alle successive generazioni di lettori); performance e storia del teatro (con particolare attenzione alla ricezione di Shakespeare sul palcoscenico inglese e alle appropriazioni di Shakespeare attraverso diversi media, lingue e culture). È stata nominata General Editor delle Cambridge Shakespeare Editions, una nuova serie di edizioni critiche delle Opere complete di Shakespeare in edizioni a testo unico (in uscita nel 2026-2031).



Principali pubblicazioni.


A new Arden 4 edition of Shakespeare’s Richard III, contracted for publication by Bloomsbury in 2024;  Shakespeare at War: A Material History, co-edited with A. Lidster, Cambridge University Press, 2023; Hamlet: State of Play, co-edited with Lucy Munro (London: Bloomsbury, 2021; Shakespeare’s Accents: Voicing Identity in Performance, Cambridge University Press, 2020; Ivo van Hove: From Shakespeare to Bowie, co-edited with S. Bennett, Bloomsbury, 2018; Shakespeare and Textual Studies, co-edited with M.J. Kidnie, Cambridge University Press, 2015; Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642, co-edited with T.L. Berger, Cambridge University Press, 2014; An Arden Early Modern Drama edition of John Ford, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, A & C Black, 2011; Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor, Cambridge University Press, 2007; A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”, Routledge, 2007; World-Wide Shakespeares: Local Appropriations in Film and Performance, sole editor, Routledge, 2005; A Globe Quarto edition of Thomas Heywood, The Wise Woman of Hoxton, Nick Hern, 2002; A New Penguin edition of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, textual editor, Penguin, 2001.






Produzione scientifica

11573/1711336 - 2024 - 'The Operation of Individual Judgement': In Praise of Critical Editing
Massai, Sonia - 03a Saggio, Trattato Scientifico

11573/1722074 - 2024 - The Artfulness of Historical Playwriting in Richard III: Shakespeare and English Tacitism
Massai, Sonia - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: CAHIERS ÉLISABÉTHAINS (Great Britain: SAGE Montpellier: Centre d'études et de recherches élisabéthaines de l'Université Paul Valéry Intervening publisher: Manchester: Manchester University Press) pp. 72-85 - issn: 2054-4715 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/1688002 - 2023 - "The Truth for which we are Fighting": David Garrick's "The Tempest" (1756) and Inclusive Britishness during the Seven Years' War
Massai, Sonia - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Shakespeare at War: A Material History - (9781316517482)

11573/1688003 - 2023 - Shakespeare at War: A Material History
Massai, Sonia - 06a Curatela

11573/1695331 - 2023 - A Portrait of Shakespeare's Folio: Sarah Siddons's Editorial Legacy in Current Editorial Theory and Practice
Massai, Sonia - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Shakespeare's First Folio Revisited: Quadricentennial Essays - (9788413118673)

11573/1695526 - 2023 - Hidden in Plain Sight: The Editor(s) of Shakespeare’s First Folio
Massai, Sonia - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: The First Folio at 400: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Graduate Conference of the Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies (IASEMS), with a Facsimile of the Fifth Folio - (9788890724466)

11573/1704890 - 2023 - The First Folio at 400: Editing Roundtable
Massai, Sonia; Jane Kidnie, Margaret; Mcinnis, David; Rasmussen, Eric - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY (Baltimore, MD Published for the Folger Shakespeare Library by The John Hopkins University Press, 1950-) pp. 362-380 - issn: 0037-3222 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/1688005 - 2023 - Introduction: A Material History
Massai, Sonia; Lidster, Amy - 02c Prefazione/Postfazione
libro: Shakespeare At War: A Material History - (9781316517482)

11573/1695517 - 2023 - The First Folio at 400: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Graduate Conference of the Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies (IASEMS), with a Facsimile of the Fifth Folio
Massai, Sonia; Loughnane, Rory - 06a Curatela

11573/1694223 - 2022 - Afterword
Massai, Sonia - 02c Prefazione/Postfazione
libro: Recontextualizing Indian Shakespeare Film in the West - (9781350168657)

11573/1669528 - 2022 - Textual Editing and Diversity: Shakespeare’s Richard III as a Case Study
Peghinelli, Andrea; Massai, Sonia - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: MEMORIA DI SHAKESPEARE (Roma: Sapienza Università di Roma) pp. 55-73 - issn: 2283-8759 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/1687994 - 2021 - Shakespeare and Digital Editions
Massai, Sonia - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: The Arden Shakespeare Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies - (9781350225190)

11573/1687997 - 2021 - Networks: Researching Global Shakespeare
Massai, Sonia - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: The Arden Shakespeare Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance - (9781350225169)

11573/1694226 - 2021 - Hamlet: State of Play
Massai, Sonia; Munro, Lucy - 06a Curatela

11573/1694232 - 2021 - Introduction
Massai, Sonia; Munro, Lucy - 02g Introduzione in volume
libro: Hamlet: State of Play - (9781350117723)

11573/1687984 - 2020 - Shakespeare’s Accents: Voicing Identity in Performance
Massai, Sonia - 03a Saggio, Trattato Scientifico

11573/1694218 - 2020 - Introduction
Massai, Sonia - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: The Moors - (9781350204607)

11573/1694239 - 2020 - Rethinking Prologues and Epilogues on Page and Stage
Massai, Sonia; Craig, Heidi - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare's England - (9781350051348)

11573/1694246 - 2018 - Canonical Iconoclasm
Massai, Sonia - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Ivo van Hove: from Shakespeare to David Bowie - (9781350031548)

11573/1694240 - 2018 - Ivo van Hove: From Shakespeare to David Bowie
Massai, Sonia; Bennett, Susan - 06a Curatela

11573/1694242 - 2018 - Introduction
Massai, Sonia; Bennett, Susan - 02g Introduzione in volume
libro: Ivo van Hove: from Shakespeare to DAvid Bowie - (9781350031548)

11573/1687988 - 2017 - Editing Shakespeare in Parts
Massai, Sonia - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY (Baltimore, MD Published for the Folger Shakespeare Library by The John Hopkins University Press, 1950-) pp. 56-79 - issn: 0037-3222 - wos: WOS:000411778400004 (3) - scopus: (0)

11573/1704892 - 2017 - Shakespeare With and Without Its Language
Massai, Sonia - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare in Performance - (9780199687169)

11573/1691928 - 2017 - Shakespeare, Tradition, and teh Avant-garde in Chiara Guidi's 'Macbeth su Macbeth su Macbeth'
Massai, Sonia; Guidi, Chiara - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Shakespeare, Italy, and Transnational Exchange: Early Modern to Present - (9781138668911)

11573/1694026 - 2016 - What is Next in Editing Shakespeare?
Massai, Sonia - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Shakespeare in Our Time. A Shakespeare Association of America Collection - (9781472520418)

11573/1691760 - 2015 - Shakespeare and Textual Studies
Massai, Sonia - 06a Curatela

11573/1691762 - 2015 - The Mixed Fortunes of Shakespeare in Print
Massai, Sonia - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Shakespeare and Textual Studies - (9781009045490)

11573/1691763 - 2015 - Introduction
Massai, Sonia - 02c Prefazione/Postfazione
libro: Shakespeare and Textual Studies - (9781009045490)

11573/1694025 - 2014 - Ms-Directing Shakespeare at the Globe to Globe Festival
Massai, Sonia - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Women Making Shakespeare. Text, Reception and Performance - (9781408185339)

11573/1691897 - 2014 - Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642, vol I
Massai, Sonia; Berger, Thomas L. - 03b Edizione Critica

11573/1691898 - 2014 - Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642, Vol II
Massai, Sonia; Berger, Thomas L. - 03b Edizione Critica

11573/1698327 - 2013 - Edward Blount, the Herberts, and the First Folio
Massai, S. - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Shakespeare's Stationers: Studies in Cultural Bibliography - (9780812244540)

11573/1691875 - 2013 - '"Heart of Darkness": Staging "Giulio Cesare" at the Globe Theatre'
Massai, Sonia - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Shakespeare Beyond English: A Global Experiment - (9781107040557)

11573/1694023 - 2013 - ‘The Tempest’, ‘Richard III’, ‘The Dark Side of Love’, ‘King Lear’
Massai, Sonia - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: A Year of Shakespeare. Re-Living the World Shakespeare Festival - (9781408188149)

11573/1704891 - 2012 - 'Early Readers'
Massai, Sonia - 03a Saggio, Trattato Scientifico

11573/1691883 - 2011 - Invisible Middleton and the Bibliographical Context
Massai, Sonia - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Middleton in Context - (9780521190541)

11573/1691885 - 2011 - Editorial Pledges in early modern Dramatic Paratexts
Massai, Sonia - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Renaissance Paratexts - (9780521117395)

11573/1691971 - 2011 - Textual Shakespeare
Massai, Sonia - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts - (9780748635238)

11573/1691886 - 2009 - Shakespeare, Text, and Paratext
Massai, Sonia - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: SHAKESPEARE SURVEY (Cambridge ; London ; New York ; New Rochelle ; Melbourne ; Sydney : Cambridge University Press, 1948-) pp. 1-11 - issn: 0080-9152 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/1698323 - 2009 - Bishop Atherton and the Manufacturing of Textual Authority: A Case Study
Massai, Sonia - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: TEXTUS (Roma: Carocci, 2012 Genova : Casa Editrice Tilgher.) pp. 535-552 - issn: 1824-3967 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/1691881 - 2007 - Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor
Massai, Sonia - 03a Saggio, Trattato Scientifico

11573/1691927 - 2007 - William Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night': A Sourcebook
Massai, Sonia - 03a Saggio, Trattato Scientifico

11573/1692051 - 2007 - Étonner l'œil: Le Merchand de Venise adapté par Julia Pascal
Massai, Sonia - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: LES CAHIERS SHAKESPEARE EN DEVENIR (Poitiers : Université de Poitiers, Faculté des lettres et des langues, 2007-) pp. - - issn: 1958-9476 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/1691919 - 2005 - World-wide Shakespeares: Local appropriations in film and performance
Massai, S. - 06a Curatela

11573/1691920 - 2005 - Defining local Shakespeares
Massai, S. - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: World-wide Shakespeares: Local Appropriations in Film and Performance - (9780415324557)

11573/1691925 - 2005 - Subjection and redemption in Pasolini's Othello
Massai, S. - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: World-wide Shakespeares: Local Appropriations in Film and Performance - (0415324556)

11573/1692648 - 2005 - John Wolfe and the Impact of Exemplary Go-Betweens on Early Modern Print Culture'
Massai, Sonia - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Renaissance Go-Betweens: Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe - (3110182157)

11573/1691877 - 2004 - Scholarly Editing and the Shift from Print to Electronic Cultures
Massai, Sonia - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama - (0521830958)

11573/1691879 - 2002 - 'Taking just care of the impression': Editorial intervention in Shakespeare's fourth folio, 1685
Massai, S. - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: SHAKESPEARE SURVEY (Cambridge ; London ; New York ; New Rochelle ; Melbourne ; Sydney : Cambridge University Press, 1948-) pp. 257-270 - issn: 0080-9152 - wos: (0) - scopus: 2-s2.0-62449097171 (4)

11573/1695348 - 1999 - Stage over Study: Charles Marowitz, Edward Bond, and Recent Materialist Approaches to Shakespeare
Massai, Sonia - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: NEW THEATRE QUARTERLY (Cambridge University Press / New York:40 West 20th Street:New York, NY 10011:(800)872-7423, (212)924-3900, EMAIL: journals_subscriptions@cup.org, INTERNET: http://www.journals.cambridge.org, Fax: (212)691-3239) pp. 247-255 - issn: 0266-464X - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/1692771 - 1997 - From Pericles to Marina: "While Women are to be Had for Money, Love, or Importunity"
Massai, Sonia - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: SHAKESPEARE SURVEY (Cambridge ; London ; New York ; New Rochelle ; Melbourne ; Sydney : Cambridge University Press, 1948-) pp. 67-77 - issn: 0080-9152 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/1698313 - 1997 - Adaptation as Edition
Massai, Sonia; Bate, Jonathan - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: The Margins of the Text - (0472106678)

11573/1698326 - 1996 - Tate's Critical Editing of his Source-Text(s) for The History of King Lear
Massai, Sonia - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: TEXTUS (Roma: Carocci, 2012 Genova : Casa Editrice Tilgher.) pp. 501-522 - issn: 1824-3967 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

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